Re: Dead soldier

: : Any clues as to where it came from or how it came about?
: : Also, Dead Marine - re: an empty bottle.

: "An empty beer bottle has been called 'a dead soldier' or 'dead
Marine' since about World War I..." From "I Hear America Talking"
by Stuart Berg Flexner (1976, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.)I recently
read in another book (can't remember which one) that "dead soldier"
may have been a little black humor -- the "spirits" had left the
bottle.